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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What is RDA of protein?






2. What is normal albumin levels?






3. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






4. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






5. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






6. Sources of fats






7. Where can you get more vitamin D?






8. What type of people need extra protein?






9. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






10. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






11. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






12. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






13. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






14. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






15. What is the function of vitamin E?






16. Name six sources of grains






17. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






18. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






19. What are healthy sources of fats?






20. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






21. What function is vitamin A?






22. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






23. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






24. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






25. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






26. When does BMR increase?






27. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






28. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






29. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






30. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






31. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






32. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






33. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






34. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






35. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






36. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






37. How many calories/gram is protein?






38. When does BMR decrease?






39. What function is vitamin D?






40. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






41. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






42. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






43. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






44. What foods have high quality protein?






45. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






46. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






47. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






48. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






49. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






50. Fats can lead to some medical problems